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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish and Manx : reduced form of McNee.
  • English (Wiltshire) : nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the knee(s), Middle English kne (Old English cnēow).
  • German : altered spelling of knie ‘knee’, a topographic name for an odd-shaped piece of land, or a nickname for someone with an unusual or injured knee.

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